Word: namely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gulf & Western issued its first annual report in 1959, one year after changing its name from Michigan Plating & Stamping Co. It was best known for producing rear bumpers for Studebakers. The report listed sales of $15.4 million, profits of $316,000 and a work force of about 600. The firm that year had a new chairman, a young Austrian immigrant named Charles G. Bluhdorn, who launched the company on an aggressive expansionist course. Today, under Bluhdorn's direction, G&W ranks 59th on the FORTUNE 500 list, with 1978 sales of $4.3 billion, earnings of $181 million, and more...
This man of enormous energies and talents was never fully accepted, as if his name and his great fortune somehow stood in his way. Like so many other figures in American history, he desperately wanted to be President. He knew he was qualified; it galled him that men he felt had less ability repeatedly beat him out for the post. He was more a man of the people, more at ease in crowds than less wealthy politicians, yet he never seemed to be totally trusted. His money hurt him in a society where populist currents still run strong...
...year-old Vicious, whose real name was John Simon Ritchie, was accused of killing his long-time girlfriend, Nancy Spungen...
...Corporation had indicated that the name of the Library is not going to be changed," Steiner said yesterday. He added that the SAC letter had been "very thoughtful," and that the Corporation would consider its proposal to establish future guidelines...
...responsibility meant asking a company to stop doing something that one doesn't like or asking it to do something that one thinks it should do. But the ACSR isn't about to shoot off a rocket. Imagine, the ACSR turns out to be a group charged, in the name of shareholder responsibility, with the solemn task of endlessly gathering information from obliging corporate officials. Perhaps it is high time for us to conclude that the people on the ACSR, wittingly or unwittingly, are conducting what amounts to an elaborate, if entertaining, sham. They certainly don't seem to think...